Re: Stepping on nails...

["Maggie Mieske" <mmieske@netonecom.net>]

She needs to soak that foot with Epsom salts to make sure it drains out ok
and does NOT get an abscess.  Penicillin is not a bad idea but she should
know a simple abscess in the foot left untreated can become septic and even
kill a horse (not the abscess itself but the infection!).  A tetanus shot
is definitely in order.  She could at least CALL the vet and ask his/her
advice about what to do even if she doesn't think it needs to be looked
at!!
Maggie (the farrier's wife who has seen nasty abscesses)

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> From: sweety@nni.com
> To: ridecamp@endurance.net
> Subject: RC:  Stepping on nails...
> Date: Thursday, August 12, 1999 1:45 PM
> 
> One of our neighbors just had a rather awful incident where her horse
> stepped on two upturned nails, piercing the hoof just over an inch away
from
> the frog on either side of the frog, towards the toe. The horse is
falling
> down lame {of course} and there is blood showing in the two holes, though
> it's not still draining. 
> 
> I went over and looked at it with her, she doesn't want to call the vet,
as
> she feels it will heal fine since they pierced the hoof outside the frog.
> She says it's almost like being 'quicked' by a farrier. I am not so sure
> about this. obviously the nails penetrated deep enough to cause severe
pain
> and visible bleeding down through the hoof. At the very least I would be
> concerned about abscesses {she says she'll dose him with penicillin to
> prevent this}. Tetanus would also be a concern - however she says he is
> vaccinated.
> 
> Is there something she needs to be further concerned about? The horse is
> young {2} and not under saddle. 
> 		    
> 
> 
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